Tom’s Hardware: 385TB video game archive saved by fans — Myrient has been ‘100% backed up’ and validated, torrents being generated. “A member of the Save Myrient community has announced that the colossal video games archive has been ‘100% backed up!’ This retro-gaming resource was on the precipice of collapsing last month after collection admins revealed that insufficient funding, rising […]

TorrentFreak: Internet Archive Faces Copyright Lawsuit Over ‘Myspace Dragon Hoard’. “Illinois-based musician Anthony Martino is suing the Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its Myspace Dragon Hoard collection. This 490,000 MP3 collection was created from recordings that were lost in Myspace’s 2019 server disaster. According to Martino, his music ended up in the collection […]

Deck officers may have wondered "Why am I capturing this information and will anybody ever bother to read it?"

Finally answered. 🙂

"Ship logbooks represent a critical source of historical meteorological data, providing valuable observations of barometric pressure, air temperature, sea surface temperature, wind force and direction, and other variables. Substantial quantities of these records are unavailable to climate science as they have not yet been transcribed. We present ‘Weather Rescue at Sea’, a citizen-science project which transcribed millions of weather observations contained in 19th Century UK Royal Navy ship logbooks. We describe the logbook structure and weather observation-taking instructions and discuss significant challenges with the translation of handwritten text into accurate data due to errors arising from ambiguous handwriting, historical terminology, and inconsistent metadata."

#weather
#DataRescue

https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gdj3.70056?af=R

My paper is out in Big Data & Society : “Emergency curation as anticipatory maintenance: Lessons from the 2016/2017 #DataRescue movement.” https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517261421482

In this paper, I propose the concept of anticipatory maintenance to show that #DataRescue (2016/17) was not just “rescue” but maintenance work: future-oriented care to keep data accessible, acting as if loss had already begun by building redundancy and decentralized preservation arrangements.

Axios: Inside the Internet Archive’s race to save federal webpages. “Government webpages on USAID, DEI and gender, among others, simply ‘got wiped out,’ Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle told visitors during a recent tour of their headquarters in the Richmond District.”

Happy Presidents Day.

Two weeks ago, the CIA shut down the World Factbook - a public
domain reference on every country, used by 6 million people
monthly since 1997.

We built a replacement:
https://openfactbook.org

261 countries · Instant search · Country comparisons

Public data should stay public.

#OpenData #CivicTech #OpenSource #PresidentsDay
#PublicDomain #DataRescue